Baldur’s Gate 3 seems to impose a hard limit on how many characters can be in the party, but there are a few ways around that. It’s somewhat surprising for a game that puts so much emphasis on party building and group adventure. The 10 companions in Baldur’s Gate 3 are some of the best things about the game; they’re all wonderful, fleshed-out characters with their own goals, skills, and quests. Some of them will stick around and develop with the player character, while others are strictly temporary and leave after a quest is completed. No matter how much their usefulness may vary, it’s undeniable that every single companion brings something unique to Baldur’s Gate 3.
There’s also a robust multiplayer mode in Baldur’s Gate 3. Players can invite friends or strangers into their parties, which can effectively turn the game into a long-term Dungeons & Dragons campaign in which no one has to go through the arduous hurdles of being the DM. Experiencing the story with friends can be truly rewarding – it’s always fascinating to compare and contrast story choices, and see how different approaches affect everyone’s experience. Plus, going into the game with a familiar party can be very helpful in combat – friends’ characters can help compensate for each other’s weaknesses, or come to each other’s aid on the battlefield. Still, in conjunction with the game’s party member limits, there are drawbacks.
In the base game, Baldur’s Gate 3 parties are always capped at four members, including any player characters – but Nexus Mods user Sildur can help change that. The mod, called Party Limit Begone, does just what it says on the tin: it increases the party member cap from four to sixteen, and allows up to eight players to join at once, creating parties four times as large as in the vanilla version of Baldur’s Gate 3.
This can help mitigate the many annoyances of the default party cap. There are no guest characters – a term used to refer to additional, contextual, often uncontrollable party members in other RPGs like Kingdom Hearts and Dragon Quest – in Baldur’s Gate 3. That means that in order to accommodate an additional character unique to a particular quest, players can only pick two other companions besides themselves. Not so with the Party Limits Begone mod - there’ll still be fourteen slots open.
There are some known issues with party expansion in Baldur’s Gate 3, however. The party will need to be trimmed down to four in order to make long and short rests work properly. At a certain point in the game, the characters must build a boat in the Underdark to sail to the Grymforge; that boat can only hold four at a time. There’s also no telling what having sixteen fully rendered, animated characters on screen will do to the game’s performance. This may also damage the difficulty of Baldur’s Gate 3, which is balanced for parties of four characters maximum. Of course if it becomes too easy, that can be diminished by cranking up the difficulty level.
2023-08-16 21:00:05
Article from screenrant.com
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